Title 22Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73not60

§9252 Termination of Sanctions and Other Measures

Title 22 › Chapter 99— NORTH KOREA SANCTIONS AND POLICY ENHANCEMENT › Subchapter IV— GENERAL AUTHORITIES › § 9252

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Sanctions and other measures must end on the day the President decides and officially tells the appropriate congressional committees that the Government of North Korea has met the requirements in section 9251 and has made significant progress toward several goals. These goals include completely, in a way others can check, and permanently ending and dismantling all nuclear, chemical, biological, and radiological weapons programs (and programs to build their delivery systems); freeing all political prisoners, including those in political prison camps; stopping censorship of peaceful political activity; creating an open, transparent, representative society; and fully finding and returning U.S. citizens (including deceased) who were abducted or unlawfully held, or detained in violation of the Korean War Armistice Agreement signed at Panmunjom on July 27, 1953.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §9252

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Any sanction or other measure required under subchapter I, II, or III (or any amendment made by such subchapters) shall terminate on the date on which the President determines and certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that the Government of North Korea has—
(1)met the requirements set forth in section 9251 of this title; and
(2)made significant progress toward—
(A)completely, verifiably, and irreversibly dismantling all of its nuclear, chemical, biological, and radiological weapons programs, including all programs for the development of systems designed in whole or in part for the delivery of such weapons;
(B)releasing all political prisoners, including the citizens of North Korea detained in North Korea’s political prison camps;
(C)ceasing its censorship of peaceful political activity;
(D)establishing an open, transparent, and representative society; and
(E)fully accounting for and repatriating United States citizens (including deceased United States citizens)—
(i)abducted or unlawfully held captive by the Government of North Korea; or
(ii)detained in violation of the Agreement Concerning a Military Armistice in Korea, signed at Panmunjom July 27, 1953 (commonly referred to as the “Korean War Armistice Agreement”).

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References in Text

Subchapter I, II, or III (or any amendment made by such subchapters), referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original “title I, II, or III (or any amendment made by such titles)”, meaning titles I, II, and III of Pub. L. 114–122, Feb. 18, 2016, 130 Stat. 98, 101, 112. Titles I and III are classified principally to subchapters I and III, respectively, of this chapter. Title II is classified generally to subchapter II of this chapter. For complete classification of titles I, II, and III of Pub. L. 114–122 to the Code, see Tables.

Executive Documents

Delegation of Functions Functions and authorities of President under this section delegated to Secretary of State, to be executed in consultation with Secretary of the Treasury when appropriate, by Memorandum of President of the United States, May 18, 2016, 81 F.R. 37479, set out as a note under section 9212 of this title.

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22 U.S.C. § 9252

Title 22Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60